Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-07-09
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
COMMENT OF THE GOTHAM PAPERS UPON
THE PRESIDENTS LETTER
A Noble and Patriotic Lstter-Scathing Rsbuks ID
Certain Republican Dsn2goguss-Pseling Among
the Independents - General Approval
Shown-PpminsniM Men Interviewed.

rOilOWlnS are tne eulUOriihs coiumenIS Vi
the New York papers on the letter:
The 1ILaes says: The dignitied and
patriotic letter of the President, with
drawing his acceptance of the invitation TO
visit st. Louis during the encampment
there of the G. A. r., is calculated to make
that organization ashamed of the conduct
Ofsome of its conspicuous members. While
he speaks OF the organization with the
utmost respect, and refuses 10 believe that
| il is responsible for the unworthy utter
ances that have induced him to reconsider
his intention Of visiting st. Louis, it is
| feared the entire incident will tend to lower
the q. A. Il. in the esteem and respect OF
the country at large. 1t will not hurt the
Presideut, but there is danger that it will
hurt an organization made up OF veterans
whom the people have every reason to
honor and every desire to honor.
WILL DIsARN CRITICS.
The Times prints number ofinterviews
on the subject. The Hon. Carl Schurz
said of the Presidents action:
1T is an entirely proper letter. Such
letter as might have been expected from
the President. 1t seems as if there was
design on the part of some persons to divert
the Grand Army from the purpose for
which it was organized, aud to turn it into
partisan body. Everything insulting to
| the President that has been issued from
| Grand Army quarters strengthens that in
dicatiOn. The responsibility, / suspect,
rests with the pension agents and attor-
neys ut Washington, who have left nothing
undone that they could think of to stir up
the feeling against the President since his
veto of the Department Pensions bill.
| The Presidents words will disarm his
critics and rebound to his own credit"
Mr.. George William Curtis said: Il
think il is q most admirable letter. 1t Is
written in that straightforward, manly
| fashion Characteristic of President Cleve-
| land and, in my opinion, it will strengthen
the feeling for the President all ever the
| Union"
Gen. Newton said: The Presidents
letter is able, conscientious and manly.
Unless the Grand Army of the Republic
rises in its might and
REPUDIATEs THE ACTION
of such men as Tuttle and Fairchild this
action will ruin it.
Gen. W. W. Averill said: ''The letter is
able and wise. lie could not have gone to
st. Louis under the circumstances, and
his statement of his position i'll the matter
is admirable. The Grand Army can only
do its order harm by carrying on such
partisan war
Mark d. WILDER, the head of the G.. A.
| f. in Brooklyn, said: lit was with great
regret that | read the Presidents letter.
| As member of the Grand Army of the
| Republic am thoroughly disgUsted with
| the way some of the leaders have acted
lately. For few Grand Army men to in
suit him and to threaten him with further
degradation in case he visited the city is
outrageous. From the shameful speech OF
Fairchild to this last gratuitous insult the
Grand Army has acted in q way calculated
10 reflect anything but credit upon its
/ members
General Daniel f. Sicklcs expressed him
self very freely in its favor: Il think the
| President
| DID PERFECTLY RIGHT.
| Il is really what expected after the ill
hammered action of those few hlackguards
who have been doing all this blowing
| about his coming to st. Louis. | am sorry,
and ! am confident the majority of the
Grand Army men are sorry that the Presi-
dent has felt constrained to withdraw his
acceptance"
| The HOrld says: The Presidents chief
excuse Is that he cannot subject his high
office, the dignity of which he must pro-
tect,' to insnlt Most American citizens
| will decline to view the matter from Mr..
Cleveland's standpoint. The idea that it
| Is necessary for the President of the United
States to stay away from one Of the chief
cities in the country, to which he has been
| invited in marked manner by its citi-
Zens, for fear of insult to MS office, Is not
one that will be seriously entertained.
| The Presidents sconduet will be interpreted
| as cowardly. The people rapidly lose re-
spect for Chief Magistrate who can be
| turned from his path by such insignificant,
self,seekiDg men as those who will now
exult over Mr.. Cleveland.
HAS GOOD GROUND.
| The San says: "Uuder the circum-
stances, the President had good ground for
recOnsidering his determination to go to st.
! Louis. Certainly, an invited guest cannot
reasonably be expected to 90 to place
| where he has ascertained that he will not
be welcome. Why should he, or anybody
else travel hundreds Of miles only to ex-
pose himself to threatened insults? He
accepted the invitation under the impress
sion that his visit TO ST. Louis would be
/ pleasureable. He Is now satisfied in his
mind that it would be anything but pleas
ant either to himself or to Others
But it is pity that Mr.. Cleveland, al
though he expressly says that the threats
of personal violence and narm were not
even considered should have considered
these threats in letter intended for pub
/ lication. There is something extremely
| unpleasant IN the fact that the President
| OF the United States should prefer to men
ton such idle aud absurd threats Of per-
sonal violence rs may have been made
against him. even ii they had not deter
mined his refusal to 90 to st. Louis. The
best way to treat them would have been
by absolute silence
CERTAIN REPUBLICAN DENAGOGUEs ,,
The Herald says: ''Mr. Cleveland has
decided not to 20 to St Louis in Septem-
Der. This is To be regretted for a thousand
reasons, but especially for the one assigned.
The people of the great West and South
west will certainly give him cordial and
hearty welcome, and the threatened insults
Of certain Republican demagogues, who
resemble patriots as q manakin resembles
a man, would only be a shoyeliul Of gar
bsge on q blossoming prairie Mr.. Cleve-
land refuses to 90 to 81. Louis because his
presence there might lead to q renewal of
the old quarrel between the North
aud the SOnth. The State OF Mis-
sour offers q generous hospitality
to the veterans OF the Union |
army. 1t is a significant event. The
south extends its hand to the North. Its |
brave veterans honor the bravery Of those
who won the fight st Appomattox. The
North grasps that extended hand in token
of national unity, and Of the prevailing |
good viii which charaeterizes all sections
Of an undivided and undivisible country.
No more important augury Of happy and
prosperous future can be conceived
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